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Newspaper
Greeley Republican
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1912
Page
3
Collage of brief items lists travel offers hats shirts and paints with prices. Local notices include rail fares to Glacier Lake, Fourth of July events, farm loans, auctions, and various business promotions from Howdy Price's Fezer's Drug Store Clayton's Pioneer Hardware and McClenahan Williams block.
Karl Bliss came home Sunday evening from Ann Arbor Michigan where he completed his college course. Rev and Mrs A B VanOrden and four children of Salina Kansas arrived this morning to spend the summer in Greeley with Mr and Mrs F G Lun beck. The ladies are sisters.
William Stewart and Tom Downs depart for Los Angeles with a wagon of horses from Snider Bros. & Wyatt. Several residents return or travel, including J C McNee of Blairsburg Iowa and families visiting locally. Notables include fishing trips, typewriter sales, and visits to Appleton City Missouri and Gunnison Colorado.
Travel deal from Boulder to Eldora or Ward for 150. to Glacier 125. round trip Boulder 100. Advertising for Ru-Ber-Oid roofing from Clayton's referenced in the notice.
Emma Crone visits brother J V Crone on route to Marathon Iowa from Roslyn Washington where she taught last year. Sallie Holland aged resident of 600 Tenth avenue breaks left arm Sunday evening and may have slow healing. Mrs Charles E Ecklund formerly of Greeley now Morrill Nebraska visits Claus A Johnson family. Weklund husband died recently in Morrill. Mrs Harry Van Antwerp leaves for Rocky Ford after visiting daughter Mrs A G Wagner. Lois Van Antwerp remains for now. Miss Gladys Pressly, with sister Mrs J R Hey at Akron, reports rapid health improvement after appendicitis operation.
Misses Vivian Cole and Helen Peebler of Nelson Nebraska visit Mr and Mrs C H Wolfe. Mrs Wolfe and guest Miss Elizabeth Dunham of West Bend Wisconsin are home from Eldora for a couple of weeks.
Dispatches from Cheyenne report Miss Gladys Shelburn and Ralph Goodfellow both of this city were married there on Sunday. They are well known in Greeley and will return to make their home here.
Mrs Sarah Craft files to contest her husband William Craft's will claiming she contributed significantly to amassing roughly $1,000 in property, which he left to the Salvation Army while leaving his family only one dollar.
A baseball game is set for this afternoon at Island Grove park at 5 30. The Episcopal team and the Baracas will face off after a prior Episco pals victory. The Baracas aim to turn the tables today and win the contest.
The area around Greeley faces a labor shortage for capable general ranch hands with strict fitness and reliability expectations. Wages range from 35 to 40 dollars monthly for seasoned workers, and employers frequently express humorous but earnest need for this labor.
An eight and a half pound boy was born June 24 to Mr and Mrs Albert J Bradley. The infant and parents are reportedly doing well. A second eight pound baby arrived June 29 to Mr and Mrs Tracey Marsh of Mexico. Mrs Marsh is in Greeley Hospital and both mother and child are doing fine.
Eugene H. Grubb of Carbondale and W. S. Guilford of California produced a new book titled The Potato. The work includes halftone illustrations of healthy plants and diseases and is printed by Doubleday Page & Company. Sample copies are available at The Republican office.
Platteville reports N L Henthorne has been named deputy bee inspector on the recommendation of state and county officials. He will also oversee the Weld county fair bee exhibit and demonstrated honey making and model hives in his private display last year.
Mr and Mrs Harry Farr and their son travel from the east to Chicago to meet Mrs Farr. They attend the University of Michigan graduation exercises where their brother Karl Farr receives a diploma before returning home with them.
Gratifie reports a row where a woman with a dog challenges a manly looking woman who angers a passerby by calling him sir. The London Opinion records the exchange and the social tension it reveals.
Vincente Valdez a Mexican was brought back to Greeley from Trinidad by Deputy Sheriff Hobart Frazier and jailed on larceny as bailee charges. He allegedly took a beer contract wage workers watches and valuables while employed in a beet field and disappeared with wages due.
Evans July 2 In Greeley all temperance workers are invited to a park rally Wednesday evening featuring Wells a noted speaker from Oklahoma Plans aim to accommodate many with electric lights donated for the celebration Thursday and provided by the committee for rally use
Despite threatening weather a good crowd saw an exceptionally good performance of this popular play at the Airdome last night. The same play will be repeated tonight. Ladies and children are urged to attend the show at the Airdome.
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